BEHIND THE SCENES: Struggle for Empire

As if the makers of U.S. foreign
economic policy did not have plenty to worry about alreadySoviet
economic offensives, the "revolution of rising expectations" in
underdeveloped countries, resentment against budget deficits at
homean old-fashioned struggle for bureaucratic empire was shaping up
in Washington to complicate matters. Apparently with the unspoken O.K.
of newly appointed Commerce Secretary Lewis Strauss, the Commerce
Department's blunt, contentious Assistant Secretary for International
Affairs Henry Kearns, 47, onetime California Chevrolet dealer, is
trying to invade the State Department's foreign economic policy domain,
ruled over by rich, polished Deputy Under Secretary for Economic
Affairs C. Douglas...